[Between October 12 and 19, 1905]

**Editorial Note:**
Comparison of the manuscript of document "a" with the manuscript of the article "Political Strike and Street Struggle in Moscow" has made it possible to establish the presence of Lenin's markings, which prove that document "a" was intended by V. I. Lenin as an insertion into the aforementioned article; moreover, the place for the insertion is precisely indicated on both manuscripts. The article, however, was printed in No. 20 of *Proletarii* without the insertion, but in the following (21st) issue of the newspaper the thoughts and even entire phrases of document "a" were incorporated into a separate article by Lenin, "Lessons of the Moscow Events." (See *Collected Works*, vol. VIII, p. 504, note 154.)

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* **A SHAMEFUL FARCE.**

The shameful farce of the State Duma appears even more contemptible alongside this genuinely revolutionary action of a class ready for struggle and truly progressive. The union of the proletariat with revolutionary democracy, of which we have spoken more than once, becomes a Fact. Radical students, who have adopted the slogans of revolutionary social-democracy both in Petersburg and in Moscow, appear as the vanguard of all democratic forces, which spurn the baseness of the "constitutional-democratic" reformists who have gone into the State Duma, who are drawn toward genuine, decisive struggle.